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1 1 y separately published work icon Season of Doubt Jon Cleary , Hawthorn : Readers Book Club , 1970 Z127532 1968 single work novel
4 12 y separately published work icon The Half-Burnt Tree Dymphna Cusack , Melbourne London : Readers Book Club Companion Book Club , 1970 Z41725 1969 single work novel
8 y separately published work icon The File on Devlin Catherine Gaskin , London : Readers Book Club , 1967 Z1049083 1965 single work novel When a Nobel Prize-winning author vanishes while travelling near the Russian border his daughter finds herself entrusted with the unfinished book he was working on before his trip. She subsequently become embroiled in a power struggle over the material with her estranged stepmother. Suspiciously befriended by a journalist in the midst of the crisis, the daughter ultimately learns that no one is to be trusted - as her father's work is of interest to the intelligence departments of several countries.
1 17 y separately published work icon Distant Land Judah Waten , Melbourne London : Companion Book Club Readers Book Club , 1966 Z52668 1964 single work novel

This novel of present day migrant life centres on Joshua Kuperschmidt who arrives with his wife Shoshanah, from Poland, in 1925. He has given up his family and his traditional European ties to escape war and persecution, in the hope of a better life.

It is the moving story of a Jewish couple who have adapted themselves to a strange new environment in a distant land - a country where even the small Jewish community differs markedly from that they have known. Material success is the reward for Shoshanah's unrelenting ambition; but Joshua is never sure whether his own ambitions in this new society are ever fulfilled. (Publisher's blurb).
1 1 y separately published work icon Our Uncle Charlie : 'and that's the way she goes' Elizabeth Lane , Melbourne : Readers Book Club , 1965 Z203291 1964 single work novel humour 'The author takes the beloved rascal of Mad as Rabbits, her Uncle Charlie, and tells of his adventures and misadventures, his good deeds and his misdeeds, his unconventionalities and his eccentric manner. Whether she writes of his odd yet common-sense way of quarrelling with her father, his escapades in the township, or of the way he imparts his vast knowledge to his nephews and nieces, Uncle Charlie is brought to life in every chapter.'
1 y separately published work icon Boy on a Chain Richard Parker , Melbourne London : Readers Book Club Companion Book Club , 1965 Z1372030 1964 single work novel young adult
1 1 y separately published work icon The Golden Ram G. H. Fearnside , Melbourne : Readers Book Club , 1965 Z842660 1965 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon The Deadline Paul Brickhill , Melbourne : Readers Book Club Companion Book Club , 1964 Z140210 1962 single work novel crime An Australian overseas in Paris gets caught up in the OAS (Organisation Armée Secrète) and French attempts to prevent Algerian secession from colonialist rule.
5 3 y separately published work icon I, the Aboriginal Douglas Lockwood , Melbourne : Readers Book Club Companion Book Club , 1964 Z1350618 1962 single work biography
2 5 y separately published work icon Mad as Rabbits Elizabeth Lane , Melbourne London : Readers Book Club Companion Book Club , 1964 Z1210280 1962 single work novel humour A 'humorous story of a girl growing up in a large family on a farm in the Victorian Wimmera'.
9 9 Black Lightning Dymphna Cusack , London : Readers Book Club , 1964 Z42161 1964 single work novel
— Appears in: Hohullam Berlinben [and] Fekete villam 1969; (p. 540)

'For Tempe Caxton, glamorous television star, life has lost its lustre. Her son was killed in the war, her lover has walked out on her, her job is over and life seems meaningless. Suicide seems to promise an easy way out.

'While recovering from a failed attempt, she discovers a surprising secret in the pages of her dead son's diary - she has a granddaughter. And she soon finds out that her grandchild is in trouble - the family that have raised her are being unfairly evicted from the land they have held for four generations.

'Gradually Tempe is pulled into an alien world, with a new purpose; she is forced to rethink her long-held prejudices, fight for principles she has never before thought about, and find a new reason for living.' (From The House of Books imprint, Allen & Unwin website, 2012.)
4 2 y separately published work icon The Mystery of Swordfish Reef Arthur W. Upfield , Melbourne : Readers Book Club Companion Book Club , 1963 Z101751 1939 single work novel crime mystery detective 'An intriguing case for Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte begins on a calm October day in an Australian seaside town. Three men set out to sea for a day's fishing...and do not return. Despite intensive searches, no trace of the men or their boat is found until, weeks later, a passing trawler hauls in a gruesome catch - the head of one of the missing fishermen. It is quite clear that its owner was murdered with a pistol bullet. But by whom and why is for Bony to find out.' - (back cover, 1983 Arkon Paperback).
1 6 y separately published work icon Picnic Races Dymphna Cusack , Melbourne : Readers Book Club , 1963 Z42274 1962 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Time in the End Frances Margaret McGuire , Hawthorn : Readers Book Club Colorgravure , 1963 Z351228 1963 single work novel
1 2 y separately published work icon The Big Country E. V. Timms , Alma Timms , London : Readers Book Club , 1963 Z273946 1962 single work novel historical fiction This is the story of the Big Country that lies around and beyond the Darling River in the far west of New South Wales. Here, in the year 1874, a beautiful half-cast girl, Jenny Courage, is searching for her father, the white man who abandoned her mother and on whom she means to be revenged. After working as a stewardess on a ferry boat, Jenny becomes a housekeeper on an isolated station. And it is there that Jenny, torn by conflicting passions of love and hate, comes by strange and violent ways to the end of her quest. (Publisher's blurb)
1 2 y separately published work icon Walk Back With Me John Dalton , Melbourne : Readers Book Club , 1963 Z33918 1962 single work novel crime
2 9 y separately published work icon Cattleman R. S. Porteous , Melbourne London : Readers Book Club Companion Book Club , 1962 Z211165 1960 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon On Top of the World Lesley Rowlands , Melbourne London : Readers Book Club Companion Book Club , 1962 Z1392229 1961 single work autobiography travel humour
1 y separately published work icon Craig's Spur E. S. Madden , Melbourne London : Readers Book Club Companion Book Club , 1962 Z1265594 1961 single work novel
15 4 y separately published work icon Heatwave in Berlin Dymphna Cusack , Melbourne : Readers Book Club , 1962 Z42385 1961 single work novel
— Appears in: Hohullam Berlinben [and] Fekete villam 1969;
— Appears in: Zharkoe leto v Berlie [and] Solnetise-ceto eshche ne vse 1990;

'After ten years of happy marriage, Joy Miller, a young Australian woman, overcomes the reluctance of her husband to return to his native Germany. There she discovers the truth about his family background and his Nazi upbringing.' (Publisher's blurb)
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